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bryde.

steward (a man managing another person’s estate)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/bryːðə/[ˈb̥ʁyðð̩]
  1. steward (a man managing another person’s estate)

    archaic · common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Danish bryti, brytæ, from Old Norse bryti, from Proto-Germanic *brutjô. Cognate with Old English brytta. Derived from *breutaną (“to break”) (see below).

verb/bryːðə/[ˈb̥ʁyðð̩]
  1. to trouble, bother

    obsolete · transitive
  2. to care for, like (with the preposition om)

    reflexive
    Jeg bryder mig ikke om smagen af fisk.
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German brǖden (“to fuck > to trouble”), cognate with German bräuten (“to fuck > to trouble”, archaic, dialect). Derived from the noun brūt / Braut (“bride, (slang) girlfriend”). In modern Danish, the verb has merged with the former one phonetically and morphologically, but it has a distinct form in the other Scandinavian languages, cf. Swedish bry (with the past tense brydde).

verb/bryːðə/[ˈb̥ʁyðð̩]
  1. to break (to cause to end up in two or more pieces or to make an opening in something)

    transitive
  2. to break, violate (a rule or rules)

    transitive
  3. to break (to win a game as receiver)

    intransitive
  4. to refract (to cause a wave to change direction)

    transitive
  5. to wrestle - see brydes

Where this word comes from

From Old Danish brytæ, from Old Norse brjóta, from Proto-Germanic *breutaną, cognate with Norwegian bryte, Swedish bryta.

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